DevOps Engineer

Job Description

End Date Tuesday 28 November 2023 Salary Range £66,861 - £74,290 We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer LOCATION(S): BristolHOURS: Full timeWORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office siteAbout this opportunityAn exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer in our central team, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform.We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions.A DevOps is not a “thing you do” but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We want to see placement of these skills in context – why they matter,what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation.It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate. Job DescriptionJOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer – CS&ESALARY: £66,861.00 - £81,719.00 GBPLOCATION(S): BristolHOURS: Full timeWORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Bristol office siteAbout this opportunityAn exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a DevOps Engineer.As a DevOps Engineer in our central team, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing, and release management within our public and private Cloud hostingplatform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions.A DevOps is not a “thing you do” but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We want to see placement of these skills in context – why they matter,what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation.It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate.Here’s where you’ll make a difference:You have can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improveour applications. You also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You will be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineeringtransformation strategy.About You:Experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment providing operational support, troubleshooting, tuning, upgrade & optimisation.Who we are looking for...

• Strong familiarity with source code repositories and other tools, particularly Git
• Experience across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production. This encompasses:
  • Continuous integration
  • Automated deployments
  • Build tools and technologies (i.e., maven, nm.)

Tools we commonly used to build automated release pipelines in LBG:

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, ArgoCD, GitOps
• NexusIQ, SonarQube
• Expert in Docker & Kubernetes. Bonus if you are CKAD certified.
• Hands on Cloud experience with both public Cloud experience - ideally with GCP, Azure
• Knowledge of fundamentals cloud architecture and security concepts
• Knowledge of tools for cloud infra as code, specifically Terraform.
• Certifications are a welcome plus:
  • Experience with a configuration and deployment management tools is an advantage, e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef
  • A “can-do” attitude, capability of bootstrapping projects, and ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary, internal and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle.
  • Familiarity with agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (TDD, BDD, Selenium)

About us Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…What you’ll need - We believe that people dont fit neatly into roles, and we value everyones individual skills, experience, and knowledge — its what makes you amazing!As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated core experience in at least one of:

• Public cloud experience (utilising Terraform) with a similar sized organisation.
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Java, Golang & JavaScript
• Bash
• Experience in a similar sized company utilising DevOps practices in the Cloud.

About working for usOur focus is to ensure were inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disabil